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Ringang's elder brother Sonam Rabten, the Minister of Agriculture, sitting on a tiger skin with...

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Ringang's elder brother Sonam Rabten, the Minister of Agriculture, sitting on a tiger skin with thangka and auspicious hangings adorning the wall behind him, Lhasa Area, Tibet, 10th-14th January 1937 (gelatin silver print)
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Chapman, Frederick Spencer (1907-71) / British
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Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
Medium
gelatin silver print
Date
1937 AD (C20th AD)
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R. D. Ringang was one of the 'Rugby Four', a group of Tibetans sent to Harrow school for an English education intended to promote national modernisation on their return to Tibet. A thangka is a silk painting depicting a Buddhist deity.

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agriculture / interior / costume / buddhism / asia / tibetan / skin / asian / skins / tiger / seated / minister / portrait / table / lhasa / male / traditional dress / black and white photograph / buddhist / sonam rabten / chuba / tibet / Photograph / Photography / Mzphoto
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